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The Franklin Square station was an express station on the demolished
IRT Third Avenue Line The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent rai ...
in
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. It was built by the
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in 1878 over the aforementioned square, had two tracks and one
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, and was the northernmost station on the line that shared both Second Avenue and Third Avenue trains. The next stop to the north was
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. The next stop to the south was Fulton Street. The station closed on December 22, 1950.


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*http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/3rdave-el.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20100609061601/http://www.stationreporter.net/3avl.htm IRT Third Avenue Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1878 Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan Railway stations in the United States closed in 1950 {{Manhattan-railstation-stub